Sometimes teachers feel exhausted and drained with the daily work of his job. I hope that these motivational and funny quotes on teachers and its profession that I compiled will serve as an energizer to bring back the drive of fulfilling their vocation.

• If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. –Barbara Colorose
• Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.-Henry Brooks Adams
• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -Jacques Barzun
• The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.-Anonymous
• Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression-Haim Ginott
• He test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.-Alice Wellington Rollins
• Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.-Bob Talbert
• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.-William A. Ward
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.-William Butler Yeats
• If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.-John Dewey
• Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.-Unknown
• It  is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
• Albert Einstein
• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.-James Baldwin
• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.-Robert M. Hutchins
• If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.-Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Estrada
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.- Aristotle
• As a general rule, teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.-Unknown
• Never do anything for a student that he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you’ll make him an educational cripple…a pedagogical paraplegic. .-Unknown
• The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book. – Author Unknown
• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – John Cotton Dana
• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. – Thomas Szaz
• To teach is to learn twice. – Joseph Joubert
• The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning. – Author Unknown
• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. – Haim G. Ginott
• The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. – Mark Van Doren
• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” – Dan Rather
• In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. – Jacques Barzun
• Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. – Author Unknown
• If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. – Donald D. Quinn
• A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers
• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. – Horace Mann
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Brooks Adams
• A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others. – Unknown
• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. – Amos Bronson Alcott
• A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. – Louis A. Berman
• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• A teacher’s purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. – Author Unknown
• What the teacher is,is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger
• Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. – Author Unknown
• Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. – Eugene P. Bertin
• A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils. – Terri Guillemets
• Teachers who inspire know that teaching is like cultivating a garden, and those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. -Unknown
• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. -Alexander the Great
• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. – Carl Jung
• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross

This page is not enough for placing all the teaching quotes. Who knows, we can publish our own quotes about teaching from our own experiences.I hope that these quotes help us teachers to be more inspired in our vocation. Enjoy reflecting and have fun teaching.

By: Mary Charlotte R. Bonus | Teacher II | MNHS-Cabcaben | Mariveles, Bataan